As he was ushered away from the altercation, Smith was heard saying: “Hey, I’m sorry. He tried to kiss me on my mouth. That joker, he’s lucky I ain’t sucker punch him. Oh sorry, I said that on camera.” Watch a clip of the incident below.

Smith recalled the hours after the encounter in a new interview with Tidal’s Rap Radar programme this week, revealing that he received a number of missed calls from Jay-Z shortly after the incident.

“I get back, and I’m pissed – just because you’re famous, [some people] think they can get to do whatever they want,” Smith said about the prankster. “So I’m in my room, and I have ten urgent messages from Jay-Z, being like: ‘Call me now!!!’

“So I call him and be like, ‘Yo, what’s up?’ And he said: ‘Hey, I just saw the video of you slapping the dude in Russia. I just want you to know you’ll never make a better piece of entertainment, that’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.

“‘Me and [Beyoncé], we got a show tonight – and we thinking about cancelling it and staying in and watching you slap this dude,’” he added. Watch a clip of the interview below.

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1 month agoby themusicchannelliveShabba Ranks, Legendary Jamaican Deejay, born Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon, 53 years ago today on 17 January 1966, in Sturge Town, St. Ann. The genre of reggaeton, now a billion-dollar business, was spawned by his 1990 song 'Dem Bow', produced by Bobby 'Digital' Dixon. The Dem Bow riddim became so popular in Puerto Rican freestyle sessions that early reggaeton was simply known as 'Dembow'.